What are the important events that happened on June 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 2 is the 153rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 20, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,147,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontatrigon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 260 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,546 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 2 Historical Events
- 1774 –Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- 1910 –Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- 1924 –U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1941 –World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
- 1946 –Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
- 1962 –During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
- 1967 –Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
- 1967 –Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
- 1990 –The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
- 1997 –In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Who were born on June 2?
- 1878 –Wallace Hartley, English violinist (d. 1912)
- 1904 –Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
- 1913 –Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
- 1940 –King Constantine II of Greece
- 1948 –Jerry Mathers, American actor
- 1954 –Dennis Haysbert, American actor
- 1965 –Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
- 1980 –Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
- 1987 –Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
- 1988 –Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
Who died on June 2?
- 1754 –Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
- 1785 –Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- 1942 –Bunny Berigan, American jazz musician (b. 1908)
- 1962 –Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
- 1968 –André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
- 1974 –Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
- 1977 –Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
- 1992 –Philip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
- 2000 –Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
- 2005 –Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
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